Typhoon Fung-wong ravaged the northern Philippines over the weekend, killing at least two people and cutting off some towns as residents emerged on Monday morning after a sleepless night to start assessing the damage. As Reuters reports, more than one million people were evacuated before Fung-wong made landfall as a super typhoon in the eastern […]
Severe weather is rare in New England during November, but earlier this week, a damaging storm ripped through the region in a tornado-like event that meteorologists called a “gustnado.” As AccuWeather reports, the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Boston, Massachusetts stated that a “gustnado” – a short-lived, ground-level swirl of wind that can form […]
A new climate analysis released by AccuWeather on Monday has revealed a 2.7% decline in total annual precipitation across the contiguous United States since 1995. This equates to approximately a 1% decrease in rainfall per 11 years. The analysis uses AccuWeather’s Data Suite – the most detailed, complete and accurate global collection of historic, current and forecast […]
A super close Supermoon will occur this week. The moon will be as close to Earth as it can get this month, fully illuminated for skywatchers, according to the Earth Sky, a science website that provides daily news and information on astronomy and space. As USA Today reports, the supermoon is set to rise on Wednesday, […]
Hurricane Melissa tied the all-time strongest landfall on record in the Atlantic Basin as it crashed ashore in Jamaica at Category 5 intensity last week. As The Weather Channel (TWC) reports, this landfall tied the following long-standing Atlantic Basin records for most intense landfall by both pressure and wind speed: – Lowest pressure: The Labor Day 1935 […]
That coveted extra hour for millions of Americans will come in early November, as the clocks “fall back” an hour and daylight saving time comes to an end for the year. It will pick up again in March, when the clocks “spring forward” and we lose an hour. The twice-annual time change is meant to add more […]
Hurricane Melissa has just tied the all-time strongest landfall on record in the Atlantic Basin as it crashed ashore in Jamaica at Category 5 intensity. As The Weather Channel (TWC) reports, Melissa made landfall around 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday near New Hope, Jamaica, according to the National Hurricane Center. This landfall tied the following long-standing Atlantic […]
As frightful festivities ramp up leading up to Halloween, there’s trouble brewing for ghosts and goblins by way of storms in at least two portions of the United States. As AccuWeather reports, parties, parades, neighborhood masquerades and parking lot trunk-or-treat activities make up the majority of outdoor Halloween activities in the week ahead. The weather […]
As Hurricane Melissa slowly churns across the warm waters of the Western Atlantic over the upcoming days, AccuWeather reports that hurricane experts continue to sound the alarm bells that a very dangerous and deadly situation is unfolding across the Caribbean. Melissa has Already Turned Deadly in Haiti, Dominican Republic As of Saturday afternoon, at least […]
As many as a half a dozen storms are expected to roll onshore in the northwestern United States through next week, bringing periods of drenching rain to lower elevations and accumulating snow to the higher terrain. One of the more potent storms, forecast to arrive Thursday night into Friday, will tap into a firehose of […]